Over the next 48 hours, Sheldon commandeered the family’s only television. He soldered capacitors onto a breadboard, wrote a rudimentary compression algorithm on his Tandy computer (in BASIC, no less), and explained the concept of discrete cosine transform to an uninterested Missy.

Georgie handed him a crumpled bill. “You’re weird, you know that?”

Whether you are watching for the lore or just for the Cooper family dynamics, S06E06 delivers on all fronts.

: Tensions rise when Mandy discovers the truth about Georgie and Meemaw’s secret, illegal gambling business. This revelation complicates their relationship just as they are trying to find stable ground.